The memory of the heart eliminates bad memories and magnifies the good ones.
La memoria del corazon elimina los malos recuerdos y magnifica los buenos.
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Gabriel García Márquez
Gabriel Garcia Marquez (1927-2014) was a Colombian novelist and journalist whose masterpiece 'One Hundred Years of Solitude' established magical realism as a major literary mode and Latin American fiction as a world force. His Nobel Prize (1982) honored 'his novels and short stories, in which the fantastic and the realistic are combined in a richly composed world of imagination.'
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